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Tonight Panoran* r«vo«ic what Kas always bo«n cusp*ct*d but n^v^r 

 prov«n — jure hov the tobacco Industry b&s <3«lib«rat«Iy d«c«iv«d 

 th« public for alaost forty yaors. It's a ctory of coaaarcial 

 fraud, »edieAl »lsr«»prAR«frt*tion arwa tn« aou6« ol ie^al 



priviiegt. 



p&rtoraA«'$ al]f><3Ation« are based on tlie toba;co industry's own 

 Internal docuj«t:ntt> aiui testiaony froa thair own eaployaas. 



When tht iinX b«tveen -BOJtln<? and cancer first becaans Known it 

 Was predicted tha tobac -o industry would not curvive the century. 

 In fact it's been a corpor^t* triunph as BAT'S protitS showed on 

 Aarcn lotA. 



This success hAm. been achieved by deliberately misle«d[lng th« 

 pui:»lic. It yian p^ci. of a brilliant d«feACe stratfr^ ogoinst 

 lawsuits the industry beliaved could destroy if. 



Tonight^ 1 prograsme will show; 



1. Sow the ci<3<»r€>ttA coirpani«$ tried to prevent crucial 

 rtsearcji fro« Iwliiq publl£h«d. 



7. How individuals within the industry were silenced. 



3. Why key labs were «hut dnwn when they seeaed to be on the 

 ver9« ot BAlcln? Isportant n«w discoveries. 



4. Row a front orgeni-satioa was estAblished to try to giw 

 credibility tw Lbe industry's own rasear^ efforts. 



f. And bow the industry secretly set up a covert research 

 or9ani»«tion which organised the rcil a«dical recearch with 

 a view to providing «via«nce and witr»«sse« solely to help 

 the industry figrht litigtttlun. 



6. How the in<)uittry-hired lawyars slowly doalnated tht 



scientists and furceU the tobacco firuo to fail in their 

 attcsptc to narket safer cigarettes which WT?u1d have Rsved 

 thousamls of lives. 



The only nan who has seen docuaent;* relating t? the whole coeplcx 

 conspiracy calls the tobaooo indu£try "the king of concealftftnt 

 and disinforstation". 



